A recent survey provides convincing evidence that JADE is among the most widely used tools to develop agent-based software systems. It finds application in industrial settings and to support research, and it has been used to introduce students to software agents in various universities. This paper offers a perspective on the current state of JADE by first presenting a chronicle of the relevant events that contributed to make JADE what it is today. Then, this paper enumerates some of the abstractions that JADE helped to identify and that are now commonly adopted in the community of researchers and practitioners interested in software agents and agent-based software development. Such abstractions have been successfully applied to construct relevant software systems, and among them, this paper reports on a mission-critical system that uses the abstractions that JADE contributed to identify to serve millions of users every day. Finally, this paper discusses an outlook on the near future of JADE by sketching a recent project that could contribute to provide a new perspective on the use of JADE.

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JADE基于代理的软件开发的最初20年

最近的一项调查提供了令人信服的证据，表明JADE是开发基于代理的软件系统的最广泛使用的工具之一。它可在工业环境中找到应用并支持研究，并且已被用来向学生介绍各所大学的软件代理。本文首先介绍了促使JADE成为今天的相关事件的编年史，从而提供了有关JADE当前状态的观点。然后，本文列举了JADE帮助识别的一些抽象，这些抽象现已在对软件代理和基于代理的软件开发感兴趣的研究人员和从业人员社区中普遍采用。这样的抽象已经成功地应用于构建相关的软件系统，其中包括：本文报告了一个关键任务系统，该系统使用JADE贡献的抽象来识别每天为数百万用户提供的服务。最后，本文通过草拟一个最近的项目来讨论JADE的近期前景，该项目可能有助于为JADE的使用提供新的视角。